Just van Rossum
What's the intended behavior if an extension fails to build? Should it print an error message and continue, or should it stop? (On the Mac distutils currently stops, which is kindof a nuisance, so I'm tempted to "fix" it...)
I think distutils should print an error and stop by default. That way users trying to build an extension immediately know that something went wrong. A command line option to make distutils try to go on if an error occurs might be useful, though, as long a clear message that an error occurred and the commands weren't completed successfully is printed at the end. Bernhard -- Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ Sketch http://sketch.sourceforge.net/ MapIt! http://mapit.de/